Your boat from space - Google Maps

[DeepFrz]

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[barnakiel]

Funny thing but I looked up on the tablet (OpenCPN) and she is there ... then I looked up on our newest laptop (Firefox) ... and she is not!!!!! (sic!!!)

Clearly Google uploads different picture files depending on the device/aplication that connects!

BTW I wonder how long it will be before we can see our boats from the space in RT.

b.

[DeepFrz]

barnakiel, try dumping the buffer and reloading your local area. Should load the latest imagery.

[motion30]

Mine is the power boat with the dinghy by the port bow:

[ryon]

Originally Posted by avb3

As I was poking around on Google Maps today I thought I would check to see if my boat was shown in the marina I kept it at this past winter and spring.

Lo and behold there it was. It'd be fun to see how many others can find their boat from space. Please post your pictures if you do.

Sure can! Here's a shot of Lady Washington and Hawaiian_Chieftain docked in Coos Bay, Oregon.

[ryon]

Here's a shot of the Brig Pilgrim. We will be taking her out for a sail at the 31st Annual Toshiba Tall Ships Festival tomorrow.

Woo hoo!

[jongleur]

How do I capture a piece of this picture
to post? And how do you put in an arrow?

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.5638.../data=!3m1!1e3

Mine's the Catalina 30 alone in its slip.

[StuM]

Originally Posted by jongleur

How do I capture a piece of this picture
to post? And how do you put in an arrow?

https://www.google.com/maps/@47.5638.../data=!3m1!1e3

Mine's the Catalina 30 alone in its slip.

I use Irfanview IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide

[CabezonBD]

We had a medical setback. Here is the boat under shrink wrap still on the hard. We plan to go there at the end of September.

[Panope]

Google did not have a shot of Panope so I dug up an aerial taken from my own plane.

Lower right. Dinghy floating near bow.

[Dsanduril]

The Google-eye view:



Google will tell you where it got the images, shows up in the bottom right corner. For a fair chunk of the Western world it will be Google sourced (they paid for the picture taking), but as you zoom out and/or move to places less traveled you'll see all kinds of other sources:

[Kenomac]

If Google has an image of your boat on google earth, it means you're not moving around as much as you should be. They'd never find us, we're constantly on the move.

[Dsanduril]

^^^^

Sad, very sad, but true.

[Sandero]

hahahaha... I can find my boat on it's mooring and my dinghy at the slip... so I wasn't aboard... But they update the photos and sometimes I see her in water winter storage. So what??

[ShaktiGurl]

Mulligan swinging on her mooring in "The neighborhood" on 1/18/2014.

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